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field ambulance

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noun

  1. military a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A 200-man field ambulance unit and the 900-man crew of the destroyer Sioux are the only Canadians left there of some 33,100* who served during and after the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Himself a writer, Son Masefield was a member of a field ambulance unit.

From Time Magazine Archive

In World War I he rose to a sergeancy in a field ambulance unit in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps it would be well to explain where our work as a field ambulance comes in.

From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by Sellers, William Edward

In February, 1916, a field ambulance was established in the village, and it was followed by others until the end of July, 1916.

From The King's Pilgrimage by Fox, Frank, Sir

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